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throwfaraway135last Monday at 8:37 AM4 repliesview on HN

Depending on the crime, most people would agree that face/gait recognition is warranted, for example in case of murder or rape.

The difference here is that some people consider "illegal immigration" to be more like a misdemeanor, others consider it to be something much more serious.


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JumpCrisscrosslast Monday at 8:38 AM

> Depending on the crime, most people would agree that face/gait recognition is warranted, for example in case of murder or rape

That's the problem with dragnet surveillance. People are okay with it for extreme cases. And then the scope creeps.

Free or secure. You can't have both. And you usually can't even have just the latter.

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15155last Monday at 12:27 PM

> others consider it to be something much more serious.

We have limited funds for social safety nets for our own citizens: how is it not "serious" that we would deplete them on folks who are willfully and intentionally breaking our rules for financial benefit?

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duk3luk3last Monday at 9:19 AM

gait recognition is a pseudoscience.

dmitrygrlast Monday at 8:40 AM

> " others consider "

laws are knowable. readable. Opinion on them does NOT matter.

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